Re: [Fsfe-uk] EU Ambassadors vote to back Software Patents

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-05-08 14:54:59 +0100 A. S. Bradbury 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Your guidance has been extremely helpful, thankyou so much for taking 
> the 
> time and effort to point me in the right direction.

Yes, thank you Tom for this help. AFFS really should do more in this 
line. Are there readers on this list who would like to help with this, 
in an organised way after next weekend?

The MEP elections are coming, so it should be easier to make them 
listen when they want our votes. I think there have been three or four 
significant votes for free software in the last year, the results are 
available online and it would be good to make a "scorecard" from them. 
We could also attend any local hustings (does anyone know about them 
yet?), maybe try to ask some questions and report what is said on 
software-related issues. For a start, I have the replies to the IPRED 
letters: can I summarise them to the public, or only to members of the 
association?

Maybe there are other good things we can do?

This could be a short-term project, from now to 16 June (to give us a 
week to review the EP results), so shouldn't demand a long-term 
commitment from anyone unsure. Who's in and what EP region are you in? 
(I'm in, and I live in Eastern England.)

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